What happens when you put salamanders in a wind tunnel? They stretch their limbs out like a human skydiver, a position they take in the wild to slow their descent when jumping out of trees.

Some salamanders make incredible skydivers, according to a newly published study from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The wandering salamander, or Aneides vagrans ...

The behavior confused scientists since salamanders do not have obviously aerodynamic bodies. Scientists have found that by assuming a "skydiving" posture, the lizards can slow a fall by 10% ...

Through evolution, these salamanders have mastered a unique method ... precisely control their descent using the same techniques skydivers use to parachute to the ground. “If we hadn’t been ...

By releasing five salamanders into a vertical wind tunnel, researchers helped to explain how these creatures survive when falling from the world’s tallest trees. Animals use a range of ...

High-speed video reveals a big difference in how salamanders react to falling. While ground-dwelling (nonarboreal) salamanders seem helpless during freefall in a vertical wind tunnel, arboreal ...

More than 20 million years ago a salamander hatchling less than three-quarters of an inch long met a traumatic end. A hungry predator—perhaps a spider or bird or snake—ripped off its left ...

The critically endangered axolotl—also known as the Mexican salamander—shares a type of cell, called a glial cell, with humans. If an axolotl hurts its spinal cord, its glial cells go to work ...